John Fitzherbert, Husbandry (1523?)
Date
1523?
Author
Book title
Here begynneth a newe tracte or treatyse moost profytable for all husbande men: and very frutefull for all other persons to rede. Husbondrye
Publication place
London
Publisher
R. Pynson
Transcription source
EEBO
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- agriculture
- fauna
Summary
A valuable introduction to the make-up of a plough, the diseases and management of sheep and horses, and the various demands on a farmer's skills. The ten ways in which a woman resembles a horse is amusing.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: topical
number: 1
number: 1
Word-entry
type: other
number: 58
sample: The bottes. The bottes is an yll dysease: and they lye in a horse mawe / and they be an inch long white coloured and a reed heed / and asmoche as a fyngers ende / & they be quicke and stycke fast in the mawe sydes / it apereth by stampyng of the horse / or tomblyng. And in the beginnyng there is remedy ynough: and if they be natte curedd be tyme they woll eate thorowe his mawe and kyll hym.
number: 58
sample: The bottes. The bottes is an yll dysease: and they lye in a horse mawe / and they be an inch long white coloured and a reed heed / and asmoche as a fyngers ende / & they be quicke and stycke fast in the mawe sydes / it apereth by stampyng of the horse / or tomblyng. And in the beginnyng there is remedy ynough: and if they be natte curedd be tyme they woll eate thorowe his mawe and kyll hym.
Schafer
1523 F
STC
10994
Other editions
20 editions 1530?-1598: STC 10995-11004.
"To know the names for euery part of the Plough" and "Of the diseases or sorances of Horses," Fitzharberts Booke of Husbandrie (London: I. R. for Edward White, 1598), pp. 4-7 (B2v-4r), 74-82 (L1v-M1v). 14 pages. 28 headwords. STC 11004. Bodl. Douce F. 200
"To know the names for euery part of the Plough" and "Of the diseases or sorances of Horses," Fitzharberts Booke of Husbandrie (London: I. R. for Edward White, 1598), pp. 4-7 (B2v-4r), 74-82 (L1v-M1v). 14 pages. 28 headwords. STC 11004. Bodl. Douce F. 200
Facsimiles
Fitzherbert, Anthony. Booke of Husbandrie: London, 1598. The English experience, no. 926. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1979.
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Modern editions
Fitzherbert, J. The Book of Husbandry. Ed. W. W. Skeat. London: Trübner for the English Dialect Society, 1882.
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Criticisms
Fitzherbert, Reginald. "The Authorship of the `Book of Husbandry' and the `Book of Surveying'." The English Historical Review 12.46 (1897): 225-36.
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Hüllen, Werner. English Dictionaries 800-1700: The Topical Tradition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. 142-45. view record
McRae, Andrew. "Husbandry Manuals and the Language of Agrarian Improvement." Culture and Cultivation in Early Modern England: Writing and the Land. Eds. Michael Leslie and Timothy Raylor. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1992. 35-62. view record
Hüllen, Werner. English Dictionaries 800-1700: The Topical Tradition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. 142-45. view record
McRae, Andrew. "Husbandry Manuals and the Language of Agrarian Improvement." Culture and Cultivation in Early Modern England: Writing and the Land. Eds. Michael Leslie and Timothy Raylor. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1992. 35-62. view record
